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100,000 Point American Express Platinum after spending $3,000 within 3 months

50,000 Point American Express Gold after spending $1,000 within 3 months

45,000 Delta miles after spending $5,000 within 6 months

Note that you don’t have to enter your social security number in the box on creditcards.com. If you do enter your social security number, it won’t be a hard inquiry unless you apply for a credit card.

Also note the possibility of not getting the full bonus if AMEX considers you to not be targeted for these offers , so do take lots of screen shots if you decide to apply!

The American Express Platinum has a $450 fee, but the 100,000 points are worth at least $1,000 so you’re still coming out ahead. You can also cancel the card and get a pro-rated fee refund and you also get $200 to use towards airline incidental expenses.

However, you may be able to use this $200 towards buying airline gift cards. Check out this post by Milevalue for more details on which airline gift cards count towards the $200 credit.

The terms say:

Welcome bonus offer not available to applicants who have had this product within the last 12 months or any Consumer ZYNC®, Green or Gold Card account within the last 90 days.

So you won’t be able to get the bonus if you had the American Express Platinum within the last 12 months.

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Got my Platinum card today. Don’t know if I should activate it because I’m a PRG card member (since 18 mos ago). Should I go ahead and activate the card, spend $3k and hope that they will give me the 100k bonus? Or should I call recon or new account line and ask if I can get the 100k bonus as an upgrade for my PRG card? Will I get another credit pull then? I’ve been seeing an upgrade offer (50k pts after 40k spend) every time I sign on to my account online and never bother to take it because it’s not worth it to me. Please advise.

@ETY – It depends if it is easy for you to meet the minimum spending requirements on the card. If so, then complete the spending on the platinum and if the points don’t post you can always upgrade the gold for the extra 50K points.

I was wondering if anyone can help me with this,recently me and my wife got the platinum MB card for 50k and now we were approved for the regular platinum (100k offer)and now I’m trying to figure out if I will get the 100k after the minimum spend and it will not be that easy for me to hit the $3,000 threshold so I would greatly appreciate any ideas on figuring out if I will get the bonus

Got my card this afternoon. Called to confirm the 50K offer and it was confirmed. Even better is that he said this despite knowing that I already had a platinum card. So I’m hopeful that I will get the bonus when I meet the spending requirement, even though the terms said I wouldn’t.

Editorial Note: We're the Million Mile Secrets team. And we're proud of our content, opinions and analysis, and of our reader's comments. These haven’t been reviewed, approved or endorsed by any of the airlines, hotels, or credit card issuers which we often write about. And that’s just how we like it! :)